*Machine Translation Specialist position at Lingo24* Lingo24 is a Scottish tech-enabled language services provider helping global brands including eBay, Mouser, Fujitsu and MTV grow internationally.
We are looking for a programmer to join our team in Edinburgh, Scotland, as a Machine Translation Specialist. The role will provide support to the global Lingo24 business through natural language processing, machine translation and machine learning. The Machine Translation Specialist will use customer-specific data and domain adaptation techniques to create Machine Translation engines specific to Lingo24’s main customers. They will also develop multiple solutions based on Machine Learning to be used by the business as a whole, including advanced Quality Assurance checks and specialized classifiers for both linguistic and translation workflow tasks. *What you will be doing:* - Specification, design and implementation of improvements to Lingo24's in-house Machine Translation technology; - Building, evaluating and deploying both customized and generic Machine Translation engines; - Specification, design and implementation of Lingo24's language technology tools, including topics such as Terminology Extraction, Document Classification and MT Quality Estimation; - Customer data analysis to identify opportunities for efficiency improvements using technology; - Keep up to date with developments in the languages technologies area and identify gaps in Lingo24’s implementation. *What we need:* - Degree in Computer Science, Machine Translation, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, or a related discipline; a PhD in Machine Translation, NLP or Machine Learning is a plus; - Experience in the language technology industry is a plus; - Excellent software development skills, experience in working with Java and Python is a plus; - Experience with the Moses machine translation toolkit; - Experience in Neural Machine Translation or sequence-to-sequence models; - The ability to learn quickly and work independently as well as part of a team; - Excellent English communication skills, advanced knowledge of another language is a plus; - Receptive to feedback, willing to learn and improve constantly; - Detail-oriented, analytical, inquisitive, self-driven and persevering. *What we offer:* - Salary range: £37,000 - £42,000 - Relaxed and friendly atmosphere, with young and forward-thinking colleagues; - 7 hours work-day; - 24 holiday days/year + additional loyalty days starting with the third year; - Loyalty month: once every 5 years we offer a celebratory month of paid holiday; - Pension; - Share options; - Well-being allowance. Closing date for applications: 1st March 2019 Please send applications and enquiries to *[email protected] <[email protected]>* -- *Dr. Sergio Penkale* Senior Machine Translation Specialist
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